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Chapter and Conference Paper
Learning Discriminative Shrinkage Deep Networks for Image Deconvolution
Most existing methods usually formulate the non-blind deconvolution problem into a maximum-a-posteriori framework and address it by manually designing a variety of regularization terms and data terms of the la...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Orientation-Aware Vehicle Re-Identification with Semantics-Guided Part Attention Network
Vehicle re-identification (re-ID) focuses on matching images of the same vehicle across different cameras. It is fundamentally challenging because differences between vehicles are sometimes subtle. While sever...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Back-Projection Lightweight Network for Accurate Image Super Resolution
Recently, deep neural networks have led to tremendous advances in image super-resolution and achieved remarkable results. However, most deep learning methods attain appreciable performance by increasing model ...
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Article
Lighting-driven voxels for memory-efficient computation of indirect illumination
Several recently proposed voxel-based global illumination algorithms rely on the use of reflective shadow maps (RSMs) to interactively compute indirect illumination. However, RSMs do not scale well with the nu...
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Semantic scalability using tennis videos as examples
With advances in broadcasting technologies, people are now able to watch videos on devices such as televisions, computers, and mobile phones. Scalable video provides video bitstreams of different size under di...
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Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Computing Architectures for Real-Time Video/Image Analysis
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Reconfigurable Morphological Image Processing Accelerator for Video Object Segmentation
Video object segmentation is an important pre-processing task for many video analysis systems. To achieve the requirement of real-time video analysis, hardware acceleration is required. In this paper, after an...
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Architecture Design of Fine Grain Quality Scalable Encoder with CABAC for H.264/AVC Scalable Extension
In addition to coding efficiency, the scalable extension of H.264/AVC provides good functionality for video adaptation in heterogeneous environments. Fine grain scalability (FGS) is a technique to extract vide...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cooperative Surveillance System with Fixed Camera Object Localization and Mobile Robot Target Tracking
This paper presents a cooperative surveillance system. It presents a cooperation scheme between fixed cameras and a mobile robot. The fixed cameras detect the objects with background subtraction and locate the...
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Analysis and Hardware Architecture Design of Global Motion Estimation
Global motion estimation and compensation (GME/GMC) is an important video processing technique and has been applied to many applications including video segmentation, sprite/mosaic generation, and video coding...
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VLSI Architecture Design of Fractional Motion Estimation for H.264/AVC
The H.264/AVC Fractional Motion Estimation (FME) with rate-distortion constrained mode decision can improve the rate-distortion efficiency by 2–6 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio. However, it comes with consid...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
High-Quality Multi-Mode Mipmap** Texture Compression with Alpha Map
This paper presents a high-quality multi-mode mipmap** texture compression with alpha map (MMMTC) system. Based on wavelet transform, a hierarchical approach is adopted for mipmap in YCbCr color space to emb...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
High Performance Hardware Architecture of Linear Filters for Intelligent Video Processing
Image filtering is an essential process in the field of image processing, and linear image filters with large kernels are especially significant for computer vision or intelligent video processing. In this pap...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Highly Efficient Face Detection in Color Images
A highly efficient algorithm for image-based face detection is proposed in this paper, whose features include a fast and regular search method, a local histogram equalization of face candidates, and a frontal ...
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Hybrid Morphology Processing Unit Architecture for Moving Object Segmentation Systems
Video segmentation is a key operation in MPEG-4 content-based coding systems. For real-time applications, hardware implementation of video segmentation is inevitable. In this paper, we propose a hybrid morphol...
